coronavirus infections have been a key metric in what s to come here. a first indicator, if you will, before hospitalizations and in worst cases death. but that may no longer be the case in 2022. i think this is the most important part of this moment in this pandemic. we have to do a shift. look, for two years infections always preceded hospitalizations which preceded deaths. so you could look at infections and know what was coming. this is the shift we ve been waiting for in many ways. we re moving to a phase where if you re vaccinated, particularly if you re boosted, you might get an infection. it might be a couple of days of not feeling so great but you re going to bounce back. that s very different than what we have seen in the past so i no longer think infections generally should be the major metric. obviously we can continue to track infections among unvaccinated people because those people will end up in the hospital at the same rate. we have to focus on hospitalizat
a new covid wave across the u.s. disrupting holiday travel plans for millions of americans. president biden s agenda remains in limbo despite that promised christmas deadline. we ll hear from the vice president about what s next for build back better. and the world remembers archbishop desmond tutu. he helped end apartheid in south africa. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. we begin with the growing concern over the rapid spread of the omicron variant in the u.s. as cases surge, so does the demand for tests. this is the scene at testing sites around the country. long lines with people often having to wait hours to get tested. and the nation s top disease expert says access to testing has got to get better. we should be using testing much more extensively than we have, even in a situation where you have people who are vaccinated and boosted, but the situation where you have such a high demand, a conflation of events, omicron starting t
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